On the emergence of verb paradigms in one spanish child

  • This paper studies the acquisition process of Spanish verbal morphology in a monolingual child. The study focuses on the period of the first 50 verb lemmas. This covers the period from age 1;7 till 1;10. The data shows that the verb acquisition process of this Spanish child follows three main stages: 1. A lexical stage in which verbs are only acquired as a lexical element. 2. A syntactic stage in which the verb, still contemplated as a non-split word, becomes the main element in the development of thematic and semantic relations. 3. A morphological stage in which verb suffixes begin to be analysed separately. At this stage, the relationship between form and meaning starts and the functional categories linked to the verb (tense, aspect, agreement, mood... ) begin to be acquired. Just at this moment, the first miniparadigms appear, which suggests that the acquisition process of verb morphology has started. The first two stages are premorphological and cover in our child the period till 1;9. In the last stage, which begins at 1;10, the child enters the protomorphological stage.

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Author:Carmen Aguirre
URN:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-307517
URL:http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/208.html
ISSN:1435-9588
ISSN:0947-7055
Parent Title (English):First verbs : on the way to mini-paradigms / ed. by Dagmar Bittner, Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung, Berlin, 1999; ZAS papers in linguistics Vol. 18
Publisher:Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Sprachtypologie und Universalienforschung
Place of publication:Berlin
Document Type:Part of a Book
Language:English
Date of Publication (online):2013/11/14
Year of first Publication:2000
Publishing Institution:Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg
Release Date:2013/11/14
GND Keyword:Spracherwerb; Verb; Morphologie <Linguistik>; Spanisch
Volume:18
Page Number:16
First Page:99
Last Page:113
HeBIS-PPN:381206750
Dewey Decimal Classification:4 Sprache / 40 Sprache / 400 Sprache
4 Sprache / 41 Linguistik / 410 Linguistik
Sammlungen:Linguistik
Linguistik-Klassifikation:Linguistik-Klassifikation: Sprachtypologie / Language typology
Linguistik-Klassifikation: Spracherwerb / Language acquisition
Linguistik-Klassifikation: Morphologie / Morphology
Linguistik-Klassifikation: Kontrastive Linguistik / Contrastive linguistics
Zeitschriften / Jahresberichte:ZAS papers in linguistics : ZASPiL / ZASPiL 18 = First verbs : On the way to mini-paradigms
:urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-306609
Licence (German):License LogoDeutsches Urheberrecht